March 18, 2008

Whether we like it or not, the power elite is getting what it wants again this election year. Having recognized the philandering, cross-dressing Rudy Giuliani as unappealing to most Republican voters and having been able to black out Ron Paul for the most part, they have gotten behind John McCain as their GOP standard-bearer. The evidence: before Christmas, McCain seemed to have few prospects and was running out of money. Now, with his having reached the magic number of 1,191 delegates, we are looking at yet another coronation.

Are Republican voters really supporting this guy? Perhaps they have very short memories and don’t recall McCain’s involvement in four attempts last year—spearheaded by President Bush and ultra-liberal Ted Kennedy (and South Carolina’s arch-RINO Lindsey Graham)—to ram amnesty-for-illegals legislation through Congress and down our throats. Or perhaps Diebold electronic voting machines did their number working overtime. Or both. Or maybe the majority of the electorate really does lack all concern for where we are headed, so long as their paychecks keep coming and cable sports stays on the air.

If this country places this man in the White House in November, it will be making a huge and grim mistake!

Not that anyone should vote for a Democrat, of course. The choices our elites have made available this year have clearly reached an all-time low. This is especially distressing because there have been alternatives to power-elite selectees. It will be very tempting to tell people, “Unless you voted for Ron Paul—and supported him with donations to his campaign, phone calls, letters to the editor or articles, etc., when the corporate media would not report on him—shut up already about the loss of your few remaining freedoms. Didn’t H.L. Mencken define democracy as the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard?” (Not that this was supposed to be a democracy, of course, and not that the electorate really decides anything of importance in this country anymore.)

It may be that McCain is the power elite’s designated loser, and that they have their sights on a Democrat this go around. Might we speculate? Perhaps the power elite is using Barack Obama’s charismatic presence to make sure Hillary Clinton stays on her leash. However, with power-elitist Zbigniew Brzezinski working behind the scenes for Obama, and with Obama now the leading (delegate-wise) Democrat, the truth could be the other way around (minus the charisma, of course, since Hillary has about as much of that as a fence post). But given the ongoing drama between those two, maybe McCain isn’t the designated loser. Both Democrats are vulnerable on multiple counts. The corporate media could lower the boom on either of them at any time.

I don’t move in power elite circles, so I really don’t know what is planned. But one thing is for sure: the elite can count on a McCain presidency further nailing down policies that are firmly in place after seven and a fraction years of George W. Bush. There is every indication that while we may see a few predictable bimbo eruptions and token debates and criticisms, when push comes to shove the support McCain needs will be there when he needs it, from the right quarters. Areas where his past transgressions are serious—think Keating Five—will disappear cleanly down the corporate media memory hole.

This, too, will be unfortunate because from the standpoint of We the People, the Bush II presidency has been a disaster of leviathan proportions.

The first thing to note is that no one with a functioning brain still thinks Bush II is a conservative. He’s a globalist and a corporatist. He has surrounded himself with neocons—Straussians and ex-Trotskyites who share his globalist vision and his intoxication with power. Almost nothing he has done has benefited We the People. Let’s look at it.

(1) Under Bush II’s watch, the national debt has soared to over $9.3 trillion as of this writing; that’s over $79,000 for every taxpayer. This, of course, is just the reported fraction of a total indebtedness that continues to mount alongside the Bush regime’s and the Federal Reserve’s efforts to quick-fix the situation. Now someone will read the last paragraph and remind me about Bush II’s tax cuts. Yes, he cut taxes, but it should be a no-brainer that unless government also cuts spending it will either have to run up huge deficits or print more and more fiat money or both. Since Bush II has expanded government faster than any Republican regime in history, we have seen both. All of which brings me to (2).

(2) The dollar is collapsing under Bush II appointee Helicopter Ben’s manipulations (following two decades of Alan Greenspan manipulations). It has lost roughly 60 percent of its value just since 2000; red alerts went off back in March 2006 when the Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3. The price of gold has reached record highs this year and is zeroing in on $1,000/oz. Foreign investors are jittery; our stock market is yo-yoing. Two things are saving the dollar right now: the fact that it remains the world’s reserve currency, plus the onward-and-upward forever mindset of the “old school” working under the assumption that all we are seeing is the recent of many bumps in the road.

(3) We are mired in two (so far!) unwinnable foreign wars entered into under dubious pretexts. We have failed to capture Osama bin Forgotten (oops, I mean bin Laden)—perhaps because an Osama bin Laden on the loose is more valuable to those in power than an Osama bin Laden under lock and key. The Iraq War, of course, long ago became a quagmire, Faux News (and McCain campaign) propaganda about “the surge” not withstanding. Almost 4,000 Americans have been killed in Iraq for no good reason. Approximately 1,173,000 Iraqis have been killed. Some of us warned back in 2002 that this would happen, and—imagine my surprise!—no one would listen. The U.S. is building a Vatican-sized embassy over there, suggesting that the reason Bush II never had an exit strategy was that his handlers did not intend on Americans’ leaving. At least, not until the power elite’s incipient world government can move in and take over. While I am not an advocate of national health care, it is possible that something like that could have been accomplished with the $500 billion-plus that has been squandered in Iraq.

(4) There is overwhelming evidence of government lying about the true state of the U.S. economy, with full corporate media compliance, of course. For example, both government and mainstream sources cite a “core” inflation rate that purposefully omits increased food and energy costs. It is also clear that the official means of calculating unemployment—reporting those who have applied for unemployment compensation, actively sought work in the past four weeks (sometimes competing against illegal aliens willing to do the same work for a fraction of the cost while living ten or more to an apartment), and whose benefits have not run out—systematically underreports the actual amount of unemployment in America. We know that home foreclosures reached all time highs last year. Personal bankruptcies reached all time highs earlier in the decade. Americans rendered homeless by long-term unemployment have moved into “tent cities” in places like Vancouver and suburban California. (There are no figures for underemployment, of course.)

(5) While supposedly fighting a “war on terror” Bush II has stymied every effort to secure our borders, which is what We The People wanted from any “immigration reform” package. Bush II has thus overseen the colonization of this country by over 20 million illegal aliens (again, the federal government and the corporate media underreport the figure at just 12 million). At least one tenth of Mexico’s population is in the U.S. illegally. There is, moreover, a complete media blackout on the illegal alien crime wave—the spree of murders, assaults, rapes, vehicular homicides by drunk drivers, etc., committed by illegal aliens. Two border patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and José Compion, remain imprisoned on the testimony of a known drug dealer while Bush II cynically commuted the prison sentence of his buddy “Scooter” Libby last summer. If I worked for the U.S. Border Patrol, I would have had to resign long ago to maintain my sanity. The absurdity of our illegal alien situation and the need to destroy those devoted to securing our borders cannot be understood, however, without:

(6) also understanding how Bush II has furthered the globalist / integrationist policies of his father, George H.W. Bush, and of the Fabian / Rhodes / CFR / Trilateralist axis which gave us NAFTA and the GATT / WTO during the Bill Clinton era (do we need more evidence that both Democrats and Republicans are controlled by this axis?). Under Bush II we saw CAFTA and more bilateral “free trade” agreements reached in lieu of a comprehensive FTAA (so far beaten back by South American leaders who want nothing to do with British-American “capitalism”). NAFTA has cost this country over 2.4 million manufacturing jobs. It has also lowered real wages and aggravated income inequality in Mexico—one of the reasons a tenth of that nation’s population has migrated here. Even back in the “booming” (credit-expansionist) late 1990s I recall reading of how our economy was “shifting” from manufacturing to domestic services. Jobs in this latter sector, of course, pay a fraction of those in the former. It was a wake-up call to realize this was no accident; it had all been carefully scripted—read America’s Engineered Decline by William Norman Grigg. Now, ten years later, it is clear that without the potentially endless opportunities for personal borrowing against the future made possible by credit cards, we would have already seen a massive decline in the American standard of living. Strictly speaking, of course, our present moment is as awash in pseudo-prosperity as the world is in fiat dollars. Americans owe $9.9 trillion in credit card debt. You don’t have real prosperity when you are carrying five figures of debt no matter how big your house is or how many SUVs you own. Think of the subprime mortgage lending meltdown. Eventually the piper always demands payment. Economic law tells us that we cannot build malinvestments on top of malinvestments forever. But I digress; our subject was globalism / economic-integrationism under Bush II

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I. Powers and Rights Reserved To We the People, Never Delegated or Violated Without Consent

A. The People are expressly defined as human beings and does not refer to corporations or contractual relationships.

B. No contract, agreement, or promise may ever bind any human to refuse to enforce the law, or prohibit them from speaking on matters of public interest.

C. We the People may believe anything, including the possible belief that this Constitution must be discarded and replaced with a superior document which defends the People and protects their power to enforce this Constitution against the Government.

D. The People are educated to apply the lessons of history to ensure rights are preserved, power asserted, and this Constitution is protected from domestic and foreign enemies.

E. The People have the enforceable right and power to review any public document and access any public official.

F. The People have the enforceable right to engage in any speech, communication, or discussion on issues of war crimes, government incompetence, or allegations of reckless government planning and maladministration.

G. Government officials, agencies, departments may not invoke any power or right they have denied to the People.

H. The People have the right to affordable housing. Where none is available, the government is denied the power to prosecute anyone for not living in a home, or residing in a public park, open forest, or public lands.

I. The People have the enforceable right to freely travel, without questions, and without delay. Any law enforcement officer, agents, or contacted security official who uses any ruse, scheme, or deception to engage in pretextual stops shall be enforced as a violation of this Constitution.

J. The People have the enforceable right to compel govenment officials, contractors, and securty personnel to identify themselves, disclose their policies and procedures, and respond to complaints about violations of this Constitution, the Supreme Law, or laws of war.

K. The People may not be subject to any electronic surveillance except on probable cause and a warrant before a judicial tribunal. The President, Congress and others are expressly denied the power to enact, create, use, or rely on quasi-judicial tribunals to self-certify warrants to conduct surveillance.

L. All denied powers to the US Government in this Constitution are reserved to the People to be used to defend the Constitution.

II. Powers and Rights Reserved to States

A. States shall have authority to enforce any law within their jurisdiction. Failure to enforce the laws of war shall be prosecuted as a war crime.

B. States shall, when the Federal Government refuses to enforce the Constitution or Supreme Law, enforce the national and international law against contractors, legal counsel, state or US government officials.

C. Any state may start impeachment investigations or proceedings against the President, Member of Congress, or US government official on issues of international laws of war, domestic rebellion, or violations of the Supreme Law oath of office, or Geneva Conventions. The States shall, upon receipt of an impeachment investigation or conviction from any other state, shall within 10 days debate that resolution. If convicted by 2/3 of the States, that US government official shall be removed from office. Any effort to thwart State efforts to enforce the US Constitution through impeachment investigations or impeachment proceedings at the State level may be construed as a subsequent violation of this Constitution and laws of war.

D. The States may, without notice, organize themselves to collectively defend this Constitution from the domestic enemies in the United States government. The States Governors have the standing power, right, and authority to use deadly combat force to enforce this Constitution against US government officials.

E. A failure of any State official to enforce the laws of war shall be subject to a war crimes trial within 90 days of discovering that evidence. Where there are credible allegations of war crimes, a failure to investigate shall be construed as a subsequent war crime, punishable by the death penalty.

F. States have the power to enforce contract obligations between contractors and the US government which affect the rights of their State citizens. Failure to enforce these contractual obligations against the contractors or US government could be construed as a subsequent violation under the laws of war and US Constitution against legal counsel, state officials, or court officers.

III. Independent Branch

A. All US government, contractor-provided, and legal counsel data shall be retained in an independent branch.

B. The President, Congress, and Judicial branches have no power, right or claim to not fully fund this Independent Branch.

C. The Independent Branch conducts electronic surveillance of the US government, stores that data, and ensures there are independent, safe, retained records of all US government transaction, including conversations and memos between legal counsel and government officials. Once created for the government or connected with any legal or illegal activity, these records are public records.

D. The data may be seen only upon a showing of reasonable belief or suspicion by the United States Congress, Court, or Executive Branch that the information may be useful in enforcing the Constitution, Supreme Law, or Geneva Conventions.

E. Private citizens may view any data, unless the US government provides sufficient, detailed evidence why that request for information should not be met for bonafide, lawful secrets. Any effort to hide evidence behind a claim of "state secrets," where that claim is linked with an effort to bypass the Constitution, oath of office, Supreme Law, or laws of war may be punishable by the death penalty.

F. All government data belongs to the People. Any legal counsel working for the US government shall ensure that the People's right to reliable information is protected. A failure to protect this information could be construed as a war crime.

IV. Prosecutorial Branch

A. All prosecutorial options are denied of the President.

B. The Prosecutorial branch has the power to raise independent combat power, support them, and may lawfully use that deadly combat force to confront Members of Congress, the Judicial Branch Officers, or the Presidents upon showing of probable cause for war crimes.

C. The prosecutorial power is the exclusive power of the prosecution branch. However, anyone may make a claim of illegal activity, and enforce the laws of the United States and States respectively. Any effort to block anyone from unilaterally attempting to enforce the laws of war through discovery, investigation, and open discussion of those alleged war crimes shall be construed as a possible subsequent offense under the laws of war.

D. Legal counsel are subject to public review, audit, and can be required, with fair notice, of a requirement to demonstrate before any court their compliance with the laws of war.

E. Legal counsel may be denied authority to conduct discovery during any investigation when that discovery is linked with efforts that would thwart war crimes investigation, enforcement of the Supreme law or Geneva Conventions.

V. Judicial Branch

A. The Judicial Branch is above the Legislative Branch and Executive Branch only in order of precedence. The Judicial Branch is a co-equal branch, and closest to the People and Constitution. It is least responsive, and most slow to the People's daily interests to enforce the Constitution and Supreme Law or Geneva Conventions.

B. Where the Judicial Branch does not timely enforce the Constitution, Supreme Law, or laws of war, the States and People retain the power and right to investigate and prosecute allegations of US government illegal activity, war crimes, or violations of the Supreme law.

C. All precedents under the laws of war are binding on the Judicial Branch, US government, and the People through enforcement actions.

D. Any decision by any judicial officer not to fully enforce the laws of war, Supreme Law, or this Constitution may be construed as a war crime, subject to the death penalty.

VI. Legislative Branch

A. The Legislative Branch is listed after the Judicial Branch because it is less responsive to the People.

B. The Members of Congress may be stopped between sessions and held to account for their failure to enforce the laws of war.

C. Refusing to investigate or impeach the President, Judicial Officers, or any current or former US government official for alleged war crimes, maladministration, illegal warfare, or other crimes against the People, States, or US Government shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to not fully assert ones oath of office, and punishable by the death penalty under the laws of war.

D. There are three chambers to the Congress. The Senate and House have a legal duty to fully enforce the laws. Any decision to not timely review evidence of impeachable offenses, or not investigate war crimes or maladministration could be construed as subsequent offenses under the laws of war.

E. The Superior Chamber shall decide, before any debate, whether the proposed bill is or is not Constitutional. This determination is subject to approval, challenge, and rejection by the People, States, and Judicial Branch.

F. The Congress is denied the exclusive power to make rules. Any rule which prohibits any investigation into alleged malfeasance in re the laws of war, Supreme Law, or oath of office is illegal, and may be construed as a subsequent offense under the laws of war.

G. The Congress shall comply with public audits, and timely provide within 45 days of an audit report a statement of remedy, and outline a plan within 90 days to fully comply with all legal obligations under the Statute, Supreme Law, oath of office, and laws of war.

H. The Congress may raise and support an army, and independently order that army only against the President when the President refuses to enforce the laws of war, or comply with his legal obligations under this Constitution.

VII. Executive Branch

A. The Executive Branch is led by three Presidents, co-equal with non-overlapping jurisdictions. The Executive Branch has one power: Executive Power. All actions taken under that one power are lesser authorities not powers. The Executive Branch has no power to create new powers or assign itself broader power.

B. The Executive Branch is listed last because it is the least responsive to the People, and the greatest threat of tyranny to this Constitution. The President is a clerk, not a King or Emperor. The President only manages programs. The President has no power to ignore, rewrite, or refuse to enforce the law. Each of the three Presidents shall have an ongoing requirement to demonstrate to the People and States and Congress and Courts compliance with the Constitution, Supreme Law, oath of office, and laws of war.

C. The Domestic Affairs President is responsive to the States and US Government on internal affairs.

D. The Foreign Affairs President shall have exclusive power to interact with foreign powers. The Foreign Affairs President is denied any power to violate the laws of war, or use covert activity against American citizens.

E. The Executive Branch, Congress, Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs President are denied the power to thwart any lawful State action to organize with foreign powers and agents to defend the US Constitution, enforce the laws of war, or protect the rights and powers of the People and States against domestic encroachments by the US government, legal counsel, or other US government officials.

F. The Commander in Chief shall only have power to lead combat operations during war time. Congress shall conduct ongoing, public reviews whether the Commander in Chief is or is not competent in managing combat operations. The Presidents and Commander in Chief are denied the power to prohibit Congress from using electronic surveillance or use separately raised and supported armies to conduct this oversight during wartime and peacetime.

G. The Executive Branch is denied the power to block anyone from getting access to illegal activity related to the laws of war.

H. During Peacetime, the Commander in Chief shall periodically cooperate with ongoing Oversight of US combat forces to ensure they are combat ready, fully trained on the laws of war, and prepared to lawfully be used to defend the Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies.

I. The Executive Branch and Presidents and officers, agents, contractors, and personnel are denied the power, right, or authority to order anyone to ignore any statute, law, legal requirement, or obligation under the Constitution.

J. The Executive Branch has no power or authority to directly contact the Legislative Branch by name. The President may only request, not order other branches of government. All Communications between the Executive and Legislative Branch shall pass through the Prosecutorial Branch, and retained in the National Archives. Those records are available for public inspection at any time. The People have the enforceable right to compel the Executive Branch, Legislature, and Judicial Branch to produce documents.

K. The Executive Branch, Congress, Judicial Branch, and Prosecutorial Branch, and States are denied the power to wage warfare, information warfare, or harass American civilians through his agents, combat troops, or third parties in the United states or from overseas. Any funds used for this illegal purpose belong to the People and States. Contracts used to enforce, compel, or organize this illegal activity are not enforceable, and contrary to public policy.

L. The Presidents are denied a presumption of competence until proven. The President shall always have the burden of proof, and is expressly denied a presumption of good faith until demonstrated with overwhelming evidence in public. An election result is not proof of competence nor does it satisfy a presumption of good faith, only of mastery to win an election through legal or illegal methods and deception.

M. The Executive Branch and Presidents and subordinate agency head, contractor, and employees are expressly denied any assurance any conversation he has related to illegal activity, war crimes, unlawful acts, or other threats to the US Constitution shall remain secret behind any shield, scheme, agreement, or technology. Any order a President or anyone gives to anyone to hide, destroy,not provide, or conceal evidence of illegal activity may be construed as a subsequent war crime, punishable by the death penalty. This restriction against following illegal orders may not be bypassed by claiming the order was from a non-person, electronic device, or other non-Constitutionally recognized entity, database, policy, guide, or other document.

N. The Presidents are denied the power to use any combat force, technology, or other military weapon or plan against American civilians, except in cases of internal rebellion which only the Congress shall approve in writing. When the Congress fails to act, or abuses its authority, the State Governors may lawfully use deadly combat force to detain and enforce the laws of war prohibiting illegal use of force against American civilians.

O. The Presidents are denied the power to induce any civilian to take any action that might deny them on any Geneva protections as a civilian. Any order, ruse, scheme, propaganda, or unreliable information to induce anyone to wage war, information warfare, or any action to harass civilians is punishable by the death penalty, and may be enforced as a violation of the laws of war.

P. The President, when delegating any power to any agency head, agrees that that agency shall be organized as if it were a separate, lesser, and not coequal branch. Those agencies shall fully cooperate with the other branches of government to ensure power within the branch or department is divided. There is no single agency, division, or office in the Executive Branch that is beyond ongoing oversight by the other four branches.

Q. The President shall have no power to block the Congress, States, Judiciary, Prosecutorial, and Independent Branch from a having co-equal status to oversee, manage, and organize that lesser branch. If the President refuses to substantially comply with that requirement, Congress may not lawfully provide funding for that agency, and the funds return to the States and People.

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